Space Shuttle's final voyage to the Intrepid Museum has been delayed till Wednesday

Onlookers take photos of the Space Shuttle Enterprise which was in Global Terminal in Jersey City on June 4, 2012. The shuttle left Kennedy Airport Sunday morning on a barge and was towed past thousands of spectators to Jersey City. Michael Dempsey/The Jersey Journal

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is spending an extra day in a Jersey City shipyard as poor weather conditions have postponed the shuttle’s journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum till Wednesday.

The bad weather has delayed crews from properly preparing to ferry and crane the shuttle before it leaves for the museum, according to an Intrepid Museum press release.

A new moving date has been tentatively set for Wednesday, the press release said, but cautioned that plans may change if the weather and tidal conditions don’t improve.

The press release did not specify at what hour the shuttle is expected to set sail.

Enterprise was scheduled to make its final voyage on Tuesday morning from the Weeks Marine in Jersey City down the Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty before arriving at the Intrepid.

As a commemoration to the end of the NASA shuttle program, Enterprise will be on exhibit at the museum starting on July 19.

Enterprise flew over Hudson County to plenty of fanfare before it landed at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on back of a jumbo jet on April 27.

On Sunday, the shuttle sailed on a large barge pulled by a tugboat from the airport to a shipyard in Jersey City where it waits to set course to its final historic destination.